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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does VDOE realize that a lot of black and Hispanic kids are failing general Ed? Will this new pathway allow them to magically pass rather than fail? Why not address this issue first? If not addressed we will in the same position with no progress in a few years. This is not about better education for blacks or Hispanic, Basically it’s all political issue they are trying to solve by holding back advanced kids to achieve their goal. There needs to be a better way to do it. [/quote]

My understanding of the SOLs and what they have implemented already, suggests they are forcing these kids who are weak on the original math program to take classes that will be harder.  It is the only way they can claim kids will be able to take calculus and that they have not dumped algebra2.  
Someone posted a link early in this thread to a 2010 SOL for Math 8(pre-algebra), and it covers several algebra topics.  I think these standards were lowered in the 2016 update, but there is still some algebra covered in pre-algebra.[/quote]

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